Dawoud bey biography of william hill

Drawn to pursue photography after viewing the exhibition Harlem on My Mind at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969, Dawoud Bey embarked on a project to document the people and everyday life in Harlem, where his parents had grown up.

When I got to the Met to see the show my jaw must have dropped.

I was mesmerized. Pictures. Black folks.

Since , photographer Dawoud Bey has developed a body of work distinguished for its commitment to portraiture.

Since , photographer Dawoud Bey has developed a body of work distinguished for its commitment to portraiture.

Since , photographer Dawoud Bey has developed a body of work distinguished for its commitment to portraiture.

About Dawoud Bey​​ Dawoud Bey was born in New York City in and began his career as a photographer in with a series of photographs.

Dawoud Bey's metaphorical photographs of Underground Railroad sites in Ohio turn scenes of darkness into symbols of hope.

Room after room. And other people walking around looking at these pictures. I couldn’t believe it. I felt like I had stumbled into some world I knew nothing about. It gave me a sense of photography’s documentary power, its potential to be a repository of collective memory, a doorway into another experience.

That experience plus my family’s history there was probably what led me to begin photographing in Harlem in 1975.

Bey’s Harlem photographs from the mid-1970s, made with a 35-milimeter camera, depicted ordinary people laughing, sitting, standing, posing, and ‘just being’ in a neighborhood that was usually portrayed quite